Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Las Vegas, NV

Issued

Aug 14, 2001, 3:30 PM MST (22:30 UTC)

Expired

Aug 14, 2001, 4:30 PM MST

In force

60 min

Issued by

NWS Las Vegas, NV

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Mohave County, AZ

The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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664 
WUUS55 KVEF 142232
SVRLAS
AZC015-142330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
330 PM MST TUE AUG 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS EXTENDED THE

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL MOHAVE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARIZONA
  THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...WIKIEUP...AREAS ALONG
  HIGHWAY 93 SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 40...AND THE HUALAPAI MOUNTAINS 

* UNTIL 430 PM MST

* AT 330 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A LINE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR THE JUNCTION OF
  INTERSTATE 40 AND HIGHWAY 93...SOUTH TO WIKIEUP. THE STORMS WERE
  MOVING SOUTHWEST AT   10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE...
  OVER THE HUALAPAI MOUNTAINS WEST OF HIGHWAY 93 BY 400 PM MST

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER 
AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN 
PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY 
RAIN.

NEMETH

LAT...LON 3432 11340 3532 11354 3511 11405 3424 11402

NWS Las Vegas, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 14, 2:34 PM MST, 56 minutes earlier.

MOJAVE DESERT/SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
234 PM PDT TUE AUG 14 2001

SYNOPSIS...AN AREA OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL STAY NEARLY STATIONARY
ALONG THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COAST THROUGH WEDNESDAY. A DRIER
NORTHWEST FLOW WILL GRADUALLY SCOUR THE MONSOON MOISTURE OUT OF
NORTHWEST ARIZONA BY WEDNESDAY. EXPECT TEMPERATURES TO RISE TO
SEVERAL DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL BY WEDNESDAY...THEN LEVEL OFF THE
REMAINDER OF THE WEEK.

DISCUSSION...SATELLITE SHOWS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE
SOUTHEASTERN PART OF THE CWA AS DEW POINTS REMAIN IN THE UPPER 50S
TO LOW 70S OVER THIS AREA. MODELS SLOWLY DRY THIS AREA OUT BY LATE
WEDNESDAY SO WILL KEEP MENTION OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THIS AREA INTO
WEDNESDAY. THIS AREA SHOULD THEN DRY OUT FOR MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES INTO
THE WEEKEND. TEMPERATURE WILL BE UP A FEW DEGREES OVER THE NEXT FEW
DAYS AS HIGH SLOWLY MOVES EAST. WINDS START TO TURN SOUTHWEST AT THE
SURFACE OVER THE NEXT DAY OR TWO AS NEXT TROUGH MOVES ALONG THE
PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST. THIS SHOULD HELP TO KEEP THE AREA DRY INTO
THE WEEKEND.

IN THE EXTENDED...SOUTHWEST FLOW BECOMES MORE SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST BY
SUNDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE MOVES SOUTH OF THE FOUR CORNERS AREA. THIS
WILL START TO INCREASE MONSOONAL MOISTURE INTO THE CWA AND GIVE THE
OUR CWA CHANCES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BY MONDAY. TUESDAY WILL
ALSO HAVE CHANCES OVER MOST OF THE CWA BEFORE SHORTWAVE MOVES IN AND
SOUTHWEST FLOW RETURNS.

.LAS...NONE.

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The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.